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Mrs Olamide Erinfolami, widow of the late Inspector Ayodeji Erinfolami, who was shot on the stomach on October 12 in the Surulere area of Lagos during the #EndSARS protest, has pleaded for justice over her husband’s killing.
The widow, who appeared on Friday before the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Inquiry probing allegations of rights abuses by the police, said she believed that her husband was shot by one of his fellow policemen.
Led in evidence by her lawyer, Mr Gbemiga Ogunleye, Olamide told the retired Justice Doris Okuwobi-led panel that though the Lagos State Government gave the family N10m compensation, “money cannot buy our joy.”
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By Onozure Dania, Lagos
A widow, of a slain policeman, Mrs Olamide Erinfolami Bankole, yesterday accused the police of killing for her husband, late Inspector Ayodeji Erinfolami Bankole, during the #EndSARS protest.
She said that her husband was murdered by the police while trying to quell the #EndSARS protest.
Bankole who was led in evidence in chief by her counsel Gbemiga Ogunleye, told the Lagos State Judicial Panel of Enquiry and Restitution for Victims of Special Anti- Robbery Squad (SARS) related abuses and other matters, that she spoke with her husband on phone, on the day of the incident before he left for work.
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Olamide Erinfolami, the wife of a police officer who was killed during the #EndSARS protest in Lagos has accused the Nigerian Police Force of killing her husband.
In her petition before the judicial panel set up in Lagos to investigate excesses of the disbanded SARS unit and other arms of the police, Mrs Erinfolami said her husband was killed while the police were trying to quell the #EndSARS protest at Surulere area of Lagos on October 12.
Gbemiga Ogunleye, the counsel to the victim, told the panel that the inspector was shot when the police tried to stop the protest aggressively.